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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2890865, member: 14873"]Thank you for that excellent post [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER], I envy your visit. That is indeed a very well done numismatic display - unusual for that kind of setting in my experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>A number of years ago I approached the Curator of Towneley Museum at the town where I was born and grew up in northern Britain, with an offer to donate my collection of Roman Britain associated coins as it then existed if they would guarantee to keep them on public display in one of the rooms. The curator was very gracious and appreciative, but she explained that the rules for display prohibited her from making such a guarantee - in fact, she explained there could be no guarantee that my coins would even be kept together as a display. I withdrew my offer. Evidently that is a not uncommon practice in the museum world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2890865, member: 14873"]Thank you for that excellent post [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER], I envy your visit. That is indeed a very well done numismatic display - unusual for that kind of setting in my experience. A number of years ago I approached the Curator of Towneley Museum at the town where I was born and grew up in northern Britain, with an offer to donate my collection of Roman Britain associated coins as it then existed if they would guarantee to keep them on public display in one of the rooms. The curator was very gracious and appreciative, but she explained that the rules for display prohibited her from making such a guarantee - in fact, she explained there could be no guarantee that my coins would even be kept together as a display. I withdrew my offer. Evidently that is a not uncommon practice in the museum world.[/QUOTE]
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